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February 22, i888. 



INTERNATIONAL BANK NOTE CO. 

18 Broadway, New- York. 

welles building. 



Society 



Sons of the Revolution 



Incorporated ctnder the Laws of the State of New- York 
May 3, 1884 



Constitution and By-Laws 



AND 



^ Membership Roil 

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February 22, 1888. 



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OFFICERS 



President : Vice-President : 

Frederick S. Tallmadge. Elbridge T. Gerry. 



Secretary : 

James Mortimer Montgomery. 



Treasurer : Registrar : 

Arthur Melvin Hatch. Asa Coolidge Warren. 



Board of Managers: 

John B. Ireland, Floyd Clarkson, George Clinton Genet. 
Henry W. Le Roy, James Duane Livingston, George 
Parsons Lathrop, John C. Jay, Jr., M. D., Rev. Brockholst 
Morgan, D. B. St. John Roosa, M. D., and President. 
Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, ex-officio. 



Gift 

Mrs. Julian Janes 

1912 



Officers of the Society from its organization, 
December 4th, 1883: 



Elected. 


Presidents. 


Retired 


1883 


John Austin Stevens, 


1884 


1884 


Frederick S. Tallmadge, 
Vice-Presidents. 




1883 


John Cochrane, 


1884 


1884 


Thomas Henry Edsall, 


1886 


1886 


Elbridge T. Gerry. 
Secretaries. 




1883 


Austin Huntington, 


1884 


1884 


Geo. W. W. Houghton, 


1886 


1886 


James Mortimer Montgomery. 
Treasurers. 




1883 


Geo. H. Potts, 


1886 


1886 


Asa Coolidge Warren, 


1887 


1887 


Arthur Melvin Hatch. 





Registrar, 
1887 Asa Coolidge Warren. 



Incorporated under the laws of the State of New- York, 
May 3d, 1884. 



Incorporators: 

John Austin Stevens, 

John Cochrane, 

Austin Huntington, 

Geo. H. Potts, 

Frederick S. Tallmadge, 

Geo. .W. W. Houghton, 

Asa Bird Gardiner, 

Thos. H. Edsall, 

Joseph W. Drexel, 

James Mortimer Montgomery, 

James Duane Livingston, 

Alexander R. Thompson, Jr. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION." 



Whereas, it has become only too evident, from the 
steady decline of proper celebration of our national 
holidays: the Fourth of July, Washington's Birthday, 
etc., that popular interest in the events and men of the 
War of the Revolution is gradually fading away. 

And, Whereas, we believe that this lack of interest 
is to be attributed, not so much to lapse of time and to 
the rapidly increasing flood of immigration from foreign 
countries, as to the neglect on the part of descendants of 
Revolutionary heroes to perform their duty of keeping 
before the public mind the memory of the services of 
their ancestors and of the times in which they lived. 

Therefore, the Society of the Sons of the Revolu- 
tion has been incorporated, to perpetuate the memory 
of the men who in military, naval or civil service, by their 
acts or counsel, achieved American Independence; to 
promote the proper celebration of the anniversaries of 
Washington's Birthday, the battles of Lexington and 
Bunker Hill, the Fourth of July, the Evacuation of New- 
York by the British, and other prominent events relating 
to or connected with the War of the Revolution ; to col- 
lect and secure for preservation the manuscript rolls, 
records and other documents relating to the War of the 
Revolution ; to inspire among the members of the Society 
and their descendants the patriotic spirit of their fore- 
fathers ; and to promote social intercourse and the feeling 
of fellowship among its members. 



CONSTITUTION 

ARTICLE I. 
The name of the Society shall be "Sons of the Revolu- 
tion." 

ARTICLE II. 

The Society shall be perpetual. 

ARTICLE III. 

The purpose of the Society is to keep alive among ourselves 
and our descendants the patriotic spirit of the men who, in 
military, naval or civil service, by their acts or counsel, achieved 
American Independence ; to collect and secure for preserva- 
tion the manuscript rolls, records and other documents relating 
to the war of the Revolution ; and to promote social intercourse 
and good feeling among its members now and hereafter. 

ARTICLE IV. 
Any person shall be eligible for membership in the Society 
who is a male above the age of twenty-one (21) years, a resi- 
dent of the State of New-York, and who is descended from an 
ancestor who, either as a military or naval officer, soldier, 
sailor, or as an official or recognized subordinate in the service 
of any one of the thirteen original Colonies or States, or of 
the National Government representing or composed of those 
Colonies or States, assisted in establishing American Indepen- 
dence during the war of the Revolution ; and no person other 
than such shall be eligible to membership in the Society. 



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Provided that any person having an office in the State ol 
New- York for the regular transaction of business, shali be 
deemed a resident of the State of New- York for the purposes 

of the Society. 

ARTICLE V. 

Whenever seven or more persons, non-residents of the State 
of New-York, but all residing in any one other State or Terri- 
tory of the United States, shall present to the officers of the 
Society, designated by the by-laws to judge of the qualification 
of candidates for membership, proof which shall satisfy said 
officers that they are suitably qualified, the officers shall so re- 
port at the next meeting of the Society. The Society may 
then, or at any subsequent meeting, authorize the said seven 
or more persons so qualified, as incorporators to organize an 
auxiliary branch of the Society in the State or Territory in 
which they reside. Provided, however, that only one auxiliary 
branch shall be created in each State or Territory. 

ARTICLE VI. 
The officers of the Society shall be a President, a Vice- 
President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Board of Managers, 
consisting of those officers ex-officio, and nine other members. 

ARTICLE VII. 
This Constitution shall be altered, amended or repealed only 
by a vote of three-fourths of the members of the Society 
present, at a meeting specially called for the purpose of such 
alteration, amendment or repeal, after five days' notice in 
writing having been given of such meeting. 



BY-LAWS. 



SECTION I. 
Members shall be elected as follows ; Candidates may send 
their names and documents, or other proofs of qualification 
for membership, to the Board of Managers : and, upon a favor- 
able report from said board, and upon payment of the initiation 
fee, shall thereupon become members of the Society. 

SECTION II. 

The initiation fee shall be five dollars ($5.00), the annual 
dues three dollars ($3.00); or the payment at one time of fifty 
dollars ($50.00) shall constitute a life member ; and the mem- 
ber so paying shall be exempt from the payment of annual 
dues. 

SECTION III. 

That in order to form funds which may be respectable, and 
assist the unfortunate, all life-membership fees or donations 
which shall hereafter be paid the Society, shall remain forever 
to the use of the Society ; the interest only of which, if neces- 
sary, to be appropriated to the relief of the unfortunate. 

SECTION IV. 

The Society shall hold an annual meeting on the fourth day 

of December, 1884, and in each and every year thereafter, at 

which a general election of ofl5cers by ballot shall take place, 

except when such date shall fall on Sunday, in which event the 



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meeting shall be held on the following day. In such election, 
a majority of the ballots given for any officer shall constitute a 
choice ; but if, on the first ballot, no person shall receive such 
majority, then a further balloting shall take place in which a 
plurality of votes given for any officer shall determine the choice. 
But inasmuch as by the law of the State of New-York, under 
which this Society shall be incorporated, it is provided that the 
names of the Board of Managers for the first year shall appear 
in the certificate of incorporation, no election of a new Board 
of Managers shall be held until the fourth day of December, 
1885, but the present Board of Managers shall continue in 
office until that time. 

SECTION V. 

At ail meetings of the Society fifteen (15) members shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, except at 
a meeting called under Article VII. of the constitution. 
SECTION VI. 

The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or in 
his absence a chairman /w tempore, shall preside at all meet- 
ings of the Society, and shall have a casting vote. He shall 
preserve order, and shall decide all questions of order, subject 
to an appeal to the Society. 

SECTION VII. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of 
the Society. He shall notify all members of their election and 
of such other matters as he may be directed by the Society. 
He shall have charge of the seal, certificate of incorporation, 
by-laws and records of the Society. He, together with the 



presiding officer, shall certify all acts of the Society. He shall, 
under the direction of the President or Vice-President, give 
due notice of the time and place of all meetings of the Society, 
and attend the same. He shall keep fair and accurate records 
of ail the proceedings and orders of the Society ; and shall 
give notice to the several officers of all votes, orders, resolves, 
and proceedings of the Society affecting them or appertaining 
to their respective duties. 

SECTION VIII. 
The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities 
of the Society ; and so often as those funds shall amount to 
one hundred dollars, they shall be deposited in some bank in 
this city to the credit of Sons of the Revolution, and shall 
be drawn thence on the check of the Treasurer for the pur- 
poses of the Society only. Out of these funds he shall pay such 
sums only as may be ordered by the Society, or by the Board 
of Managers. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and 
payments, and, at each annual meeting, render the same to 
the Society, when a committee shall be appointed to audit his 

accounts. 

SECTION IX. 

If, from the annual report of the Treasurer there shall ap- 
pear to be a balance against the Treasurer, no appropriation 
of money shall be made for any object, but the necessary cur- 
rent expenses of the Society, until such balance shall be paid. 

SECTION X. 
The Board of Managers shall be thirteen, namely, the Pres- 
ident, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, ex-officio, and 



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the remaining nine elected as hereinbefore provided for the 
election of the officers of the Society. 

They shall judge of the qualification of the candidates for 
admission to the Society, and shall, at each meeting of the 
Society, report favorably all those they find qualified as such 
under the constitution. They shall have charge of all special 
meetings of the Society, and shall, through the Secretary, call 
special meetings at any time, upon the written request of five 
members of the Society, and at such other times as they see 
fit. They shall recommend plans for promoting the objects of 
the Society, shall digest and prepare business, and shall author- 
ize the disbursement and expenditure of unappropriated money 
in the treasury for the payment of current expenses of the 
Society. They shall generally superintend the interests of the 
Society, and execute all such duties as may be committed to 
them by the Society. They shall appoint a Registrar, who 
shall keep a roll of members, and in whose hands shall be 
lodged all the proofs of membership qualification, and all the 
historical and geographical papers, manuscript or other, of 
which the Society may become possessed ; and who, under the 
direction of such Board of Managers, shall, for adequate com- 
pensation, keep copy of such similar documents as the owners 
thereof may not be willing to leave permanently In the keeping 
of the Society. Such Registrar, if piacticable, shall be an 
officer of the New-York Historical Society. 

At each annual meeting of the Society, they shall make a 
general report. 

At all meetings of the Board of Managers, a majority shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 



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SECTION XI. 
Ayes and nayes shall be called at any meeting of the Society 
upon the demand of five members. 

SECTION XII. 

No alteration on the by-laws of the Society shall be made 
unless such alteration shall have been openly proposed at a 
previous meeting and entered in the minutes with the name 
of the member proposing the same, and shall be adopted by a 
majority of the members present at a stated meeting of the 
Society. 



THE CONTINENTAL SOLDIER. 

Address delivered by Col. Floyd Clarkson before the Society on Feb 
ruary 22d, 1887. 

Mr. President .-—In responding to the toast, " The Continental Soldier,' 
it may give rise to the suggestion that we are praising ourselves, for by the 
Constitution of our Society only those can become members who have 
sprung from the loins of the Continental Soldier, embracing in the desig- 
nation not merely those who enlisted in the regiments of the line of the 
different States, but also those who served under the broader banner of the 
minute man and the militia ; those, through whose veins flows the blood, 
drops of which watered the seeds of human liberty sown in these colonies 
one hundred years before ; the fruitage of which now gladdens the whole 
earth. 

And yet, Mr. President, so many generations are between most of us 
and those actors on one of earth's most conspicuous fields (for we are not 
so closely allied as is our dear, good friend Mr. Benjamin or Mr. Delevan), 
that we can properly recount the noble qualities they evidenced, and not 
be charged with egotistic display,— for the pen of the historian has with 
golden hues recorded their names and deeds upon the temple of fame, and 
the Muses have with seraphic harmonies sung their praise. 

The Continental Soldier, and especially those of the line, were long- 
suffering and patient. 

In a new country, with a government not organized to meet a powerful 
foe, with its authority not fully recognized,— to establish which they 
battled ; without credit and without means, except such as loyal men 
placed upon the altar of their country, it was to be expected, almost as a 
matter of necessity, that supplies would be scanty, pay would be long de- 
ferred, severe hardships were to be undergone ; but as you read the story 
of the march from Westchester through New Jersey, shoeless, blanketless, 
with insufficient clothing, the snow reddened with the patriot's blood, and 
when those Continental soldiers went into cantonments at Valley Forge 
or at Morristown, and the history of the winter's life at those places is 
read, how nobly do those men rise before us in their long-suffering and 
endurance. The icy current of the Delaware, with the great cakes of ice. 



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was not an impassable barrier to those hardy men ; the swamps of South 
Carolina became their house and their fortress, and the waters of the Pedee 
and Broad mirrored their triumphant ambuscades as Marion's or Sumter's 
men fled across the fords of those streams, and quickly turned to strike the 
Tory and the regulars of Tarleton. 

Besides, Mr. President, the valor of the men who fought out to a suc- 
cessful issue the establishment of this nation, attracts our admiring wonder 
and wins our warmest praise. 

From Bunker Hill the veterans of one of the proudest nations of Europe 
recoiled again and again before the militia gathered from the fields and 
•hops of New England ; on the heights of Long Island, Sterling and Small- 
wood so bravely contested every foot of ground, that caution took the place 
of bravado on the part of the invader. Trenton and Princeton gave evi- 
dence of the bravery and alertness of the Continental soldier, and his 
ability to measure arms with the choice troops of General Howe. At Mon- 
mouth Court House, though betrayed through the envy and ambition of a 
conspicuous commander, the heroism of the Continental soldier turned 
the tide of battle and made the darkness of the night a welcome mantle to 
cover the flight of the veterans of Europe. At Bemis Heights, the militia 
and the line from Connecticut and Massachusetts, from New Hampshire 
and Vermont, and our own beloved State, together with the riflemen of 
Morgan, threw themselves with such impetuosity upon the grenadiers of 
Great Britain and on hired soldiers of Germany , that surrender became a 
necessity, and Burgoyne's army reached not Albany except as prisoners 
of war. 

And so on through the list of Brandy wine, Gerraantown, Cowpens, King's 
Mountain, and others, the soldiers of the Revolution maintained their 
attacks, and when not victorious made the contest so sanguinary that the 
victory of their opponent lost most of its advantage. 

But, above and beyond all, above their endurance and long-suft'ering, 
above their patience and their valor,— their love of country, their glorious 
patriotism, rises as their most sublime characteristic. 

Trained in a school whose lessons were of the rights of man, the indi- 
viduality of each one, and his inalienable right to govern himself, to pursue 
bis honest calling in his own way, to enjoy life and the happiness which law 
and order and prosperity should give him ; he loved the country which 



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secured him those blessings, and he loved it beyond and better than life and 
all things else. 

Going into battle without the organization which long experience in the 
great contests of Europe had given their opponents, with the consciousness 
of weakness which comes from lack of drill and unity of thought and 
movement, with inferior arms and with insufficient ammunition ; yet those 
glorious men unhesitatingly committed themselves and their dearest in- 
terests to the hazard of the conflict, assured that their devotion to country 
and to the cause which that country represented in the struggle, their un- 
yielding patriotism, and the consequent bravery of each one, would bring 
victory out of these elements of disaster. 

This Society would fail of its proper usefulness, unless, as we recall these 
and other qualities and principles of our fathers, we shall deepen, in our- 
selves and in our posterity, devotion to these same elements of prosperity 
of our country, and assist in turning back the wave of lawlessness and 
anarchy which is reaching our shores from the looser and wilder classes of 
foreign agitators and dreamers. 

We shall fail in doing our duty to our country unless we shall show 
that, though removed by two or three or four generations from those 
heroic men, we still cherish their principles of civil and religious freedom, 
of law and order, and shall by our words and deeds and influence work 
for the growth and spread of the glorious principles of our Fathers, the 
Continental soldiers. 



THE NAME OF WASHINGTON. 
Read Before the Society on February -iu, ihS;. 

Sons of the youth and the truth of the nation.— 

Ye that are met to remember the man 
Whose valor gave birth to a people's salvation. — 
Honor him now ; set his name in the van. 
A nobleness to try for, 
A name to live and die for— 
The name of Washing'ton ! 

Calmly his face shall look down through the ages — 

Sweet yet severe with a spirit of warning ; 
Charged with the wisdom of uaints and of sages ; 
Quick with the light of a life-giving morning. 
A majesty to try for, 
A name to live and die for — 
The name of Washington ! 

Though fr.ction may rack us, or party divide us, 

And bitterness break the gold links of our story. 
Our father and leader is ever beside us. 
Live and forgive ! But forget not the glory 
Of him whose height we try for ; 
A name to live and die for— 
The name of Washington ! 

Still in his eyes shall be mirrored our tleetinir 
Days, with the image of days long ended : 
Still shall those eyes give, immortally, greeting 
Unto the souls from his spirit descended. 
His grandeur we will try for ; 
His name we'll live and die for— 
The name of Washington ! 

Geo. Parsons Lath hop. 



" OUR COUNTRY : Divine Providential Preparations for Making her 
the Home of Liberty." 

Address Delivered by Rev. Brockholst Morgan before the Societv an 
Februarj^ 22d, 1887. 

Mr. Chairmatt and Gentlemen :—\ am aware that there are many, not 
among ourselves, however, who would object to the wording of the toast to 
which I have the honor to respond to-night. Providence is an unknown 
quantity in the thinking of many. They would scorn to read the historj- 
of this country, or of any other land, in the light of such an interpretation. 
" Providence," said the French skeptic, "is on the side of great battal- 
ions." The history of nations is to such men like a rudderless ship, sent 
across the vast ocean to drift whither the winds and tide may direct. And 
any counting upon Divine Providence, as the toast suggests, in inter- 
fering in the government and direction of human affairs, is but the weak- 
ness of superstition or the invention of priests. 

But it is not in such a light that you and I would read the history of 
our country, or review the great deeds, to commemorate which we are as- 
sembled here to-night. Those gallant men of the Revolution, whose 
descendants we are, entered upon their perilous and almost hopeless strug- 
gle with the inspiration that their cause was none other than the cause of 
God. Indeed, I believe that, at the foundation of all human greatness, 
there must lie the belief that, back of us, there is a power which will sus- 
tain the right, and bring things good out of evil. It was that faith which 
supported Columbus when he first steered for our shores, and his super- 
stitious and drunken sailors would have cast him into the sea. Among 
the profound discouragements of our civil war, defeat upon the field of 
battle and treason in our great cities, the soul of Abraham Lincoln was 
upheld with the belief that God had not abandoned this nation, but that 
it would emerge from the struggle mightier than ever, to accomplish the 
purpose of malice towards none and charity for all. And, along the line 
of history, which this society is set to commemorate, if we did not recog- 
nize a Divine Providence shaping this as the future home of liberty to the 
oppressed of all nations, we should not be true, I think, to ourselves, to 
our traditions, or to the plain, unvarnished facts of history. 

Religious liberty, gentlemen, is at the foundation of all national pros- 
perity, and history demonstrates the ruling of a Divine Providence in pro- 



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caring this for us. You are wel! aware of the facts in the early settlement 
of this continent, of the course of Spanish discovery in the South, and of 
the Jesuit missionaries Marquette, Joliet and Jacques Cartier along the 
St. Lawrence River. But for us was reserved a tide of immigration far 
different from these, a leaven which, like the measure of meal in the Scrip- 
ture parable, leavened the whole lump of American life. The Anglo-Saxon 
of the seventeenth century was not a lovable type of manhood in many 
respects : he was grim, he was bigoted, and he burned witches. Among 
those early emigrants was Sir Harry Vane, of whom Cromwell said in a 
petulant mood : " Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane, the Lord deliver me 
from S'T Harry Vane." But this same race of emigrants had a sturdy love 
of liberty, for which they had shed their blood in their own land, and, not 
finding there, came amid great hardships to maintain here. At that time, 
as if to help on the ends which Providence had in view, the English 
Bible was given to the world in its most popular form, and the English 
character had reached its high-water mark for strength and integ- 
rity. They built your first churches, they established your first col- 
leges, they were the first of your missionaries to the Heathen, and the 
peaceful sound •; of the axe, wherewith they cleared away the dense forests, 
were exchanged, on Sunday, for those solemn meetings, wherein they 
maintained and established the principles of religious liberty, and deep- 
ened, for all time, the solid strength of this nation ! 

Nor are we to stop here, gentlemen, but reverently to acknowledge the 
Divine Providence, which, at the same time, shaped the growth, and pro- 
tected the tender life, of civil liberty in our land. For one thing, it is mar- 
velous, to think, how the period of the colonization of this land was provi- 
dentially timed. Had it been earlier, or later— all the result seemed to 
hang upon this— For one short period, the principles of civil liberty in 
England were laid down, and filled the minds of the people. There was, 
during that time, a temporary reaction against arbitrary power, against 
taxation without representation, and against the interference of the Crown 
with the rights of the people, and it was at that period that there came 
over to our shores a body of men full of determination to maintain that 
ideal. These, during his brief career in power, Cromwell encouraged 
and orotected against the encroachments of Parliament. And when he 
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subjugate our liberties, but was compelled to desist. This feeble gcrnc. oi 
freedom, at the beginning of the Revolution, seemed at last fated. What 
could be more vain than for a nation like ours was then, with a popula- 
tion of only three millions, a large and tenantless country, and 
military resources of the poorest kind, to contend with a power 
which had successfully faced the world in arms, and whose em- 
pire encircled the globe, so that, to use Macaulay's words, wher- 
ever the sun rose, the martial airs of England sounded the reveille ? 
There is no more gallant scene in history than that of the few 
men, ancestors to all of us, and in whose memory this society is formed, 
who swore to maintain the independence of this land with their lives, 
their wealth, and their sacred honor. And here it is, gentlemen, that we 
come upon one of those convincing facts, which prove that God holds the 
destinies of nations in His hands, and that none have been more favored 
than ourselves. There was a time, you know, the traditions of your fam- 
ilies tell you, when all seemed helpless in that struggle with the mother 
country, when there was treason in our camps, starvation among onr 
troops, and one bold advance of the enemy would have crushed our fail- 
ing strength. At that period, by one of those strange phases of history 
which we call a Divine Providence, our ancient foe France, monarchical, 
ei'ery tradition of which was at variance to civil liberty, came to the 
rescue of this bleeding people and offered herself as a rampart against our 
foes. Nor did it stop here, but more marvelous still, the councils of our 
very enemies were confounded at that time, and the British Parliament de- 
nounced the unrighteous attempt of the Ministry to subjugate this people, 
while Chatham, with dying breath, obtained for us a final peace and re- 
cognition af our liberties. It is of a piece with that same Divine Provi- 
dence which in later days has brought us out of the gloom and horror of 
civil war, so that the rulers of Europe, who looked with dismay at the 
growth of Democratic principles and would gladly have had a hand in our 
downfall, beheld us risen from the struggle, free from the one blot that lay 
upon our flag, stronger than ever in the principles of liberty, and to use 
the language of Scripture, " He crouched as a lion, and as a young lion, 
who dare rouse him up ? " 

We have dealt so far with the past, gentlemen, look for one moment at 
the present. There is a Divine Providence in the land we occupy, a pro- 



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Tis.on J.X Nature (or the security and liberty of the millions who shall 
make it their home. The immense ocean which rolls between us and our 
nearest neighbors defends us from the easy aggression of foreign foes. 
On the North we have a dependent colony from which there is nothing to 
fear, and on the South, distracted communities, like Mexico, in perpetual 
discord and strife, awaken in us no apprehension. No other nation en- 
joys, on anything so grand a scale, the advantages of union, and you have 
only to cast your eyes over a map of this country to see the wonderful 
provision which God has made here for a peaceful and a prosperous 
people. What threatens at one time to be our bane— emigration from 
other lands— has become a source of strength. In the great cities of the 
American continent every nation has her citizens; here, in New York, 
there are more Germans than in Hamburgh, and more Jews than in 
Jerusalem. And yet this enormous foreign element, far from endangering 
the liberty and stability of the country, has made itself into an element of 
its abiding prosperity. 

Truly, history contains no parallel to what we liave been considering, 
and, whether we consider the part of this people, or speculate upon the 
part this great Republic is to play in the future of mankind, we have 
equally reason to applaud the sentiment to which I have been called upon 
this evening to respond. 

One word, gentlemen, before I close. As I look around me I see the 
" Sons of the Revolution," the descendants of men who, with sword and 
musket, or in the legislatures of these States, turned the world upside 
down. They were no drones, those forefathers of ours. They were no 
carpet heroes. There are names among us to-night whom our country 
will always hold dear, for eloquence in debate, for wisdom in council, for 
energy in action, and for heroism in battle. A word of warning to us, 
their descendants— no danger is greater to the American of to-day than the 
neglect of his political duties, of the service he owes his country. No 
temptation so common as to leave to others what we should do ourselves. 
If we are true " Sons of the Revolution," worthy descendants of those 
whose names we bear, it is not by such neglect that we shall do them 
honor, but by going forth among men, in a spirit of patriotic love to our 
country, and of faith in its Divine Protector, we shall build a worthy 
superstructure upon the foundation they so nobly laid. 



MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 



Date of 
Initiation. name, address. 

885 Abney, John Rutledtre 4 W. 29th St., New-York. 

887 Aborn, Robert W 1071 Park ave., New-York. 

886 Adams, Charles H 16 E. 67th St., New- York. 

884 Allen, Ethan 115 Broadway, New- York. 

886 Anthony, Richard Amerman 591 Broadway, New- York. 

887 Astor, Wm. Waldorf 7 E, 33d St., New- York. 

88s Barnard, Horace 26 E. 35th St., New- York. 

887 Barrows, Henry H Windsor Hotel, New- York. 

886 Belden, Wm 810 5th ave., New-York. 

887 Belknap, Robert Lenox 5 Gramercy Park, New- York, 

886 Benjamin, Arthur Bedell Stratford, Conn. 

88s Benjamin, Fred'k A Stratford, Conn. 

888 Benjamin, John » 11 E. 33d St., New- York. 

887 Bissell, Pelham St. George, XS5 W. 58th St., New- York. 

886 Bissell, Wm. H 58 Irving Place, New- York. 

884 Bloodg-ood, Robert Fanshawe 8 W. 21st St., New-York. 

887 Bolton, James Clinton 1 15 Broadway, New- York. 

884 Bowman, Joseph Joslyn 245 Broadway, New- York. 

888 Bowen, Clarence Winthrop 251 Broadway, New- York. 

886 Bullus, Albert 51 Wall St., New- York. 

887 Butler, Charles, LL. D 78 Park ave., New- York. 

884 Burrall, F. A., ^. Z? 48 W. 17th st., New- York, 

887 Byington, A. H Norwalk, Conn. 

887 Cadwalader, John Lambert 36 Wall St., New-York. 

888 Cannon, Henry White 18 E. 45th St., New-York. 

888 Carpender, William c<g W. 33d St., New- York. 

888 Carpender, John Neilson 57 White St., New- York. 

885 Carr, Wm. Henry Fifth Avenue Hotel, New- York. 

886 Carroll, Edward, Jr 10 Wall st., New- York. 

887 Chrystie, John Albert 23 Nassau St., New- York. 

886 Clarkson, Ashton Crosby 136 E. 73d st.. New- York. 

884 Clarkson, Floyd 39 Broadway, New- York. 



Date of 
Initiation. .--...i^. a(.oress. 

[885 Clarkson, John Van Boskerck ,u Broadway, New- York. 

1887 Clearwater, Alphonso Trumpbrour Kingston, N. Y. 

1886 Coale, Samuel Chase Rutherford, N. J. 

r886 Coe, Charles A 4 E. 46th St., New-York. 

[887 Constant, Samuel Victor . . .405 W. 21st st., New-York. 

1887 Crane, Charles Nicoll 119 W. 48th St., New- York. 

[886 Crosby, Livins^ston iiS E. 24th st,, New- York. 

Crosby, Wm. B 120 Broadway, New- York. 

1887 Curtiss, George E Flatbush, N, Y. 

1885 Darlington, John Lacey, Jr i Broadway, New- York. 

1885 Darlington, Wm. Lacey, M. D 130 Allen st., New- York. 

1886 Davidson, George Trimble 56 Wall st., New-York. 

Delafield, Clarence gs Liberty st.. New- York. 

Delafield, F. P 475 5th ave., New-York. 

Delafield, Tallmadge 95 Liberty St., New- York. 

Delavan, Charles H 136 W. 22d st., New- York. 

Delavan, Christian S ... 136 W. 22d st., New- York. 

I Dickerson, Edward Nicoli 7 Beekman St., New- York. 

1886 Dickerson, Edward Nicoll, Jr 64 E. 34th St., New- York. 

I Dickerson, John New-York Yacht Club, New- York. 

r886 Diefendorf, Menzo 200 W. 56th St., New- York. 

1884 Dominick, Marinus Willett 74 Broadway, New -York. 

■ Doudge, James R . 35 W. 4sth st., New-York. 

' Downing, Silas . .Windsor Hotel, New- York. 

[884 Drexel, Joseph W 103 Madison ave., New- York. 

) Drowne, Henry T 147 W. 36th St., New-York. 

r "84 Ed.sall, Thomas H 

.87 Emerson, John W . . Windsor Hotel, New- York. 

• 085 Evans, Thomas Grier 49 Nassau st., New-York. 

1887 Fairchild, Benjamin T S4 Fulton St., New- York. 

1S87 Fairchild, Samuel W 84 Fulton St., New-York. 

1887 Fairchild, Thomas B Stratford, Conn. 

«S86 Farley, Gustavus, Jr .64 South St., New- York. 

>886 Feeter, Jacob ""V 310 5th ave., New-Ycrk. 



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887 



Dace oi 
Initiation namk. 

835 Ftl.ch, John 

888 Ffacke, Charles Louis 

88,5 Floyd, Augustus 

886 Floyd, Jolin G 

885 Floyd-Jones, George S 

887 Foster, James A 

887 Fry, George Gardiner. . . 

884 Gallup, C. Van Eversdyk.. 
88+ Gardiner, Asa Bird, LL. D. . 
887 Gawtry, E. Harrison. . . 

887 Gedney, Frederick G . . . 

885 Genet, Albert Rivers . . . 
884 Genet, George Clinton 

88s Gerry, Elbridge T 

887 Gibson, George Rutledge . . . 

887 Gibson, James Renwick, Jr. 

888 Gibson, Robert Renwick 

886 Goold, Clarence W 

887 Griswold, Chester 

884 Guild, Frederick Aug. . 

Hackley, Caleb Brewstt 

HackstafiE, Wm. G. 

Hale, Matthew 

Hamilton, Wra. Gastuii . 

Hamilton, Robert Ray. 

Hamilton, Schuyler 

Harper, Franklin 

Hatch, Arthur Mel via. . . 

886 Hatch, Nath. AV. T 

884 Hawes, Gilbert R 

Hawkes, E. McDougall. 

Hawthorne, Julian 

Hayes, R. Somerrj 
2:885 Healey. Warren V. 



AUDKE:S>. 

261 Broadway, New- York. 

.106 Montague s:., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

42 Pine St., New-York. 

. .79 and 8i William st., New-Y'ork. 

51 Wall St., New- York. 

. ..238 W. 14th St., New- York. 

Rye Neck, Wes. Co., N. Y. 

Calumet Club, New-York. 

.31 Nassau St., New- York. 

18 W. nth St., New- York. 

.... .31 Nassau St., New- York. 
. . .T32 Nassau St., New- York. 

132 Nassau St., New- York. 

.261 Broadway, New- York. 
4g Broadway, New- York. 
. 77 Cedar St., New- York. 

77 Cedar St., New- York. 

137 W. i22d St., New- York. 

23 W. 48th St., New- York. 

•4 Remsen st., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Murray Hill Hotel, New- York. 

. . .40S W. coth St., New- York. 

Albany, N. Y. 

105 E. 2ist St., New- York. 

48 W. 38th St., New- York. 

. .Park Ave. Hotel, New- York. 

42 E. 49th St., New-York. 

14 Nassau St., New- York, 

14 Nassau St., New- York. 

— 120 Broadway, New- York. 
. T73 5th ave,, New- York. 

Sag Harbor, L. I. 

18 Wall St., New- York. 

. . 1478 Broadway, New-York. 



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Date of 
Initiation. name. address. 

1885 Hedden, Edward L 38 W. 49th St., New- York. 

1887 Hedden, Josiah 286 Madison ave., New-York. 

1885 Hill, John L 155 6th ave., Brooklyn, N. Y . 

1884 Holcombe, W.F.,Hf. D 54 E. 25th St., New- York. 

1885 Holt, George C m Broadway, New- York. 

1884 Houghton, George W. W 15 Park Place, New- York. 

1887 Howell, Francis B Elizabeth, N. J. 

1887 Howell, Henry W Elizabeth, N. J. 

1887 Howell, Henry W., Jr Elizabeth, N. J. 

1885 Howell, Richard Stockton 16 E. 37th St., New-York. 

1885 Hubbard, Grosvenor D 35 Wall st.. New- York. 

1884 Huntington, Austin 165 Broadway, New- York. 

1885 Huntington, Frederick Jabez 165 Broadway, New- York. 

1887 Humphreys, A. W 45 William St., New- York. 

1885 Hurlburt, Percy Dakin 570 Monroe St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1886 Imlay, T.B. S 157 Madison St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

i886 Ingersoll, Rev. Edward P 485 Greene ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1884 Ireland, John B 170 Broadway, New- York, 

i886 Jackson, Wm. H 825 Madison ave., New- York. 

r888 Jackson, Joseph C 138 E. 34th St., New-York. 

j886 Jay, John C, Jr., J/. Z? 17 W. 46th St., New- York. 

1887 Jay, William 48 Wall St., New- York. 

1885 Jewett. Rev. A. D. L Fordham, N. Y. 

1887 Johnson, Samuel William Rye Neck, Wes. Co., N. Y. 

1887 Johnson, William Samuel Rye Neck, Wes. Co., N. Y. 

1887 Kent, Edward Henry 536 5th ave., New- York. 

188s King, Horatio C 46 Willow St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1888 King, John Alsop Great Neck, L. I., N. Y. 

t886 Knickerbocker, Henry 830 5th ave., New- York. 

1887 Knight. Charles Huntoon, M. D 20 W. 31st st.. New- York. 

1886 Lathrop, Francis 80 Washington Square, New- York. 

»886 Lathrop, Geo. Parsons New-London, Conn. 

1885 Le Roy. Henry W toi E. 19th st., New- York. 

1884 Living-Stan, James Duane 5 E. 27th st., New- York. 



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Date of 

Initiation. name. address. 

887 Livingston, Philip L 5 E. 53d St., New-York. 

884 Lockwood, Howard 145 W. 58th St., New- York. 

884 Lockwood, James Betts White Plains, N. Y. 

885 Luckey, C. C 348 W. 56th st., New- York. 

886 Malcolm, Philip Schuyler Oswego, N. Y. 

884 Marsh, Charles Baumann 274 W. 128th St., New-York. 

88s McDonald, Frank V 532 Washington St., New-York. 

884 McDowell, Charles E 120 Liberty St., New-York. 

884 McDowell, Wm. O 120 Liberty St., New-York. 

887 Meyer, Albert J Lake View, Erie Co., N. Y. 

884 Miller, J. Bleecker 44 W. 9th St., New- York. 

884 Montgomery, James Mortimer iii Wall St., New- York. 

886 Montgomery, Richard Malcolm 87 Pine St., New-York. 

886 Morfit, Clarence 38 E. 67th St., New-York. 

886 Morgan, Rev. Brockholst 11 Livingston Place, New-York. 

884 Morris, Gouverneur 80 Broadway, New- York. 

385 Murray, Charles H aoo Broadway, New-York. 

887 Murray, Logan C i Broadway, New-York. 

887 Nicholson, Chrystie Few 462 Broadway, New-York. 

885 Owens, James 154 E. 57th st., New-York. 

887 Parkin, Henrj-- Grenville 49 5th ave., New-York. 

887 Paterson, Jacob W 152 Stanton St., New-York. 

887 Perkins, Edward C 115 Broadway, New- York. 

888 Peck, Theodore Safford Burlington, Vt. 

885 Pierrepont, John Jay i Pierrepont Place, Brooklyn. 

885 Popham, George Morris 118 Waverly Place, New-York. 

884 .Potter, Henry L Linden, N. J. 

884 Potts, Geo. H Park Bank, New-York. 

884 Redding, C. H. E 58 Bond St.. New- York. 

885 Reed, Theo. F Spring Valley, Rockland Co., N. Y. 

887 Revere, Aug. Le Febre Morristown, N. J. 

887 Riker, John Jackson 45 Cedar St., New-York. 

886 Roe, AVm. James Newburgh, N. Y. 

885 Roosa, Daniel B. St. John, M. D 20 E. 30th si., New- York. 



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Date of 

Initiation. namb. address. 

1887 Runk, Rev. Edward J 18 W. 51st St., New-York. 

1887 Sanford, Elliot 95 Nassau St., New- York. 

1887 Sanford, Jared Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

i886 Satterlee, Edward R 48 Pine St., New- York. 

1886 Satterlee, F. Le Roy, M. D 21 W. 19th St., New- York. 

1888 Satterlee, Geo. B 42 Broadway, New- York. 

1886 Satterlee, Samuel K Rye, Wes. Co., N. Y. 

1886 Satterlee, Walter Y. M. C. A., New- York. 

1886 Schuyler, Spencer D 56 W. 38th St., New- York. 

i886 Seeley, Henry W 158 W. 45th St., New-York, 

1886 Sheldon, Wm. Crawfoid, Jr 2 Wall St., New- York, 

1887 Short, Edward Lyman , 20 W. 37th St., New- York. 

1884 Shrady, Jacob 2046 Madison ave.. New- York. 

1884 Shrady, John, M. D 66 W. 126th St., New-York. 

1884 Shrady, William 2046 Madison ave.. New- York. 

i886 Sillcock, John J 234 W. 21st St., New-York. 

1888 Smith, Rev. Dr. J. Tuttle 17 West i8th St., New- York. 

1884 Smith, Thos. West 229 W. 130th St., New- York. 

1887 Sprague, Chas.E . . Union Dm.Sav. Bank.B'way & 6th ave., New- York. 

t886 Squier, Frank 84 Duane St.. New- York. 

i886 Stanton, F. McMillan 76 Wall St., New-York. 

1886 Stanton, John R 76 Wall St., New- York. 

1884 Stevens, John Austin Newport, R. I. 

X884 Stone, Wm 243 Broadway, New-York. 

1887 Storm, Thomas Park Ave. Hotel, New- York. 

1887 Storm, Walton 49 W. S7th st.. New- York. 

1885 Strobel, Edward Henry U. S. Legation, Madrid, Spain. 

1886 Strong, Theron G 38 W. 52d St., New-York. 

1886 Suydam, John R 14 E. 41st St., New- York, 

x888 Swartwout, John H Stamford, Conn. 

1887 Swartwout, Satterlee Stamford, Conn. 

1887 Talbot, Theo. B 96!Broadway, New-York. 

1884 Tallmadge, Frederick S 165 Broadway, New- York. 

1885 Tapp, Ed, Wm 15 Burling Slip, New-York. 



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Date of 

Initiation. name. address. 

1887 Taylor, Samuel R 120 Broadway, New- York. 

Thompson, Alex. R., Jr 55 Liberty St., New- York. 

tS84 Thompson, Wm. R S5 Liberty St., New- York. 

1885 Thompson, Von Beverhout, M.D. iii W. 43d St., New- York. 

1887 Thornall, C. Eugene 1133 Lexington ave., New- York. 

Tomlinson, John Canfield 40 Wall st. , New- York. 

Tomlinson, Theo. E 39 Broadway, New- York. 

Tremain, Henry Edwin 167 Broadway, New- York, 

1885 Tyler, Mason W . . 167 Broadway, New- York. 

1886 Valentine, Abraliam B 10 E. 41st st., New- York. 

Vanderpoel, John A 224 Madison ave., New- York. 

1886 Van Winkle, Edgar Beach 117 E. 70th st., New- York. 

r884 Varnum, James M 31 Nassau st., New- York. 

Ver Planck, Wm. Gordon 42 Pine St., New- York. 

r887 Wainwright, John Tillotson 23 E. 28th St., New- York- 

1887 Ward, Sylvester L. H 65 Wall St., New- York. 

1884 Warren, Asa Coolidge. 26 W. 19th St., New- York. 

1885 Webb, Alex. S.,LL. D 15 Lexington ave., New-York. 

Weston, Rev. Dan'l Coney, D. D....t Rutherford Place, New- York. 

[885 Wilson, Henry A 315 E. 28th St., New- York. 

1887 Wood, E. T 200 Broadway, New- York. 

Wood, Samuel Seymour. J20 Broadway, New- York. 

1887 Wooster, J. E, , 4iJ^ W. 4sth st., New- York. 

, Wright, W. F., y)f. Z? 57 W. 10th St., New- York. 

[887 Wyeth, Geo. Edward 5 E. 27th St., New- York. 

Wyeth, Leonard J., Jr Riverdale. N. Y. 

laP^ Total membership, February 22, 1888, aa8. 



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